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UNITED STATES l PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST E. DYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO EDMUND H. STROUD, OF SAME PLACE.

SKIRT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,012, dated October 30, 1900.'

Application iiled March 28, 1899.

T0 all whom it nfl/ay concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST E. DY ER, a resident of Chicago, in the county of yCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to devices employed for supporting the skirt of a dress by securing it to the waist behind, and especially to what is known as a shirt-waist. The ob lject is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and easily-manipulated device which is readily secured to the creased or plaited fabric of the shirt-waist in position to easily receive and sustain the supporting-clips carried by the skirt.

On the drawings which accompany this specification like parts bear like designation throughout.

Figure l isa View in rear elevation showing the supporter secured in place with the usual tapes at the waist-line ofthe wearer; Fig. 2, a rear elevation View of the sustaining-clips carried by the skirt at each side ofthe placket; Fig. 3, a detail elevational View of the supporter; Fig. 3, asection View on line 3 of Fig. 3, one of the skirt-clips being shown in position; Fig. 4, a plan View `of the inner metal stiffener with slits therein preparatory to upsetting; Fig. 5, a perspective View of the skirtclip.

Secured to the back of the garment at the waist-line is the sheath 20, having the usual tapes 2l stitched to its opposite edges and furnished with an internalstiffener22,made of some convenient metal inclosed by the sheath. The stiffener is slit, as at 23, the edges being thereupon bent up from the plane --of the metal body and slipped through corresponding slits cut in the face of the fabric sheath 20. On upsetting the edges of the metal slits the stiffener is not only held to the sheath, but stout elongated eyes or seats 23 result,

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which serve t'o receive the clips 24, sustained by the skirt-waistband. Having secured the metal plate or stiffener in place on the sheath, as described, said sheath (if made of one piece of fabric, as usual) 'may be lapped over or folded upon itself. A line of stitchingis run about to fasten the fold and complete the article in readiness for use. The fastener can be applied at the shirt-waist in any familiar way.

Clips 24, made of metal bent to form elongated hooks, are fastened to the skirt at the sides of the placket. With the clips in posi-v tion they can be easily directed bythe wearer into the eyes 23n on the sheath, the stifener 22 and the fold of fabric back of eyes 23a both aiding in ready guidance of the clips to place.

The eyes 23u afford a broad bearing for clip 24. to properly drape and sustain the skirt, while the elongation of the eyes 23a allows for sufcient lateral slip in clips 24. to permit for the play of the skirt responsive to the movements of the wearer without strain or unsightly shift of the skirt.

Having thus described iny invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A skirt-supporter for shirt-waists or like garments comprising an inner plate of flexible metal and an inclosing fabric sheath stitched about said plate leaving suitable terminals to which lthe waist-tapes can be fastened; said inner plate being properly slit and upset through corresponding slits at the face of the sheath to constitute reinforceeyes (closed at the back by the fabric) for reception of the elongated clips carried on opposite sides of the skirt-placket, substan-V tially as described. Y

' ERNEST E. DYER.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. Parson, ALBERTA ADAMICK. 

